Convivio refers to living and eating together; a shared meal, but also a shared social life formed through food, labour, and hospitality.

The project proposes slowness as a spatial and social act of repair for Gergei, where distance, ageing, and the erosion of everyday communal life have made this commune in the midlands of Sardinia, Italy, increasingly fragile. Rooted in the principles of Slow Food, the project brings harvesting, exchange, wine-making, cheese production, cooking, dining, and temporary stay into one shared architecture. Rather than hiding production as back-of-house labour, it makes these acts visible, participatory, and communal, allowing locals and visitors to learn through making and gather through food.

The intervention works through subtraction and reuse: the ground is excavated to reveal a lower level between two existing masses, which are reconnected by a bridge. Rammed earth, site-sourced stone, and reclaimed timber tie the new architecture to what is already there. Convivio becomes an inhabited terrain where ground, making, and gathering are continuous.